For his bounty,
There was no winter in't: An autumn 'twas
That grew the more by reaping: his delights
Were dolphin-like, thy showed his back above
The element they lived in: in his livery
Walked crowns and crownets: realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
(Cleopatra at V, ii)

Never try to save out of God's cause; such money will canker the
rest. Giving to God is no loss; it is putting your substance in
the best bank. Giving is true having, as the old gravestone said
of the dead man "What I spend had, what I saved I lost; what I
gave I have."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

So quickly sometimes has the wheel turned round, that many a man
has lived to enjoy the benefit of that charity which his own
piety projected.
- Laurence Sterne

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never
saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his
pocket and popped it in, so deal with your compliments through
life. An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a
prodigious bit of timber.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

The generous pride of virtue,
Disdains to weigh too nicely the returns
Her bounty meets with--like the liberal gods,
From her own gracious nature she bestows,
Nor stops to ask reward.
- James Thomson (1)

Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none in so
distinguished and pre-eminent a degree as benevolence.
- Unknown